The IQRF technology was introduced to students interested in studying at CTU FEL. With the IQRF wireless networks, students can meet during their studies, e.g. in projects. The school is a member of the IQRF Smart School program, it can certify its students for IQRF basics knowledge.

IQRF technology was introduced to radio amateurs at a weekend meeting in Prague. Under the auspices of the Czech Radio Club, the National Technical Museum and the OK QRP Club, 18 children aged between 8 and 16 participated in the Electroweekend. The children learned basics of IQRF wireless network, how to build the IQRF network in a few minutes and they saw data visualization using the IoT Starter Kit.

Dr. Vladimír Šulc, IQRF Tech CEO, presented about wireless security at the SCADA security conference in Prague on the October, 13th. He mentioned a problematic and naive history of using wireless devices in a common life and how big progress our IQRF technology has made. Nowadays it is one the most sophisticated wireless technologies for IoT.

Microrisc participated in two-days event at the Cracow University of Technology. The workshop was focused on international cooperation between universities and companies in High voltage and IoT fields. First International Workshop on Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering was great opportunity to meet a new business partner, share own experiences and competencies with other participants and established an existing relationship as well. Additionally during workshop participants had possibility see well-equipped laboratories of Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering and discuss common research and business topics. In the event participated representants of the schools and companies from Poland, Czech, Ukraine, and Germany.

IQRF technology is now a mature technology that reflects the needs of developers who have used IQRF in dozens of different IQRF projects in the past. Since its inception in 2004, it has undergone tremendous development and is currently the world's No. 1 in wireless low-power mesh networks. It is secure, simple and interoperable.

Thanks to its structure and location, Smíchovská střední průmyslová škola (SSPŠ) was chosen as ideal for testing in difficult conditions of urban development and dense road traffic. "Sensors were installed in ten classes to permanently measure indoor air pollution levels through atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), relative humidity and temperature values, and transmit these data 24 hours a day to the O2 internal system," says Petr Hájek, expert from O2. At the same time, two sensors were installed at the school to measure the level of air pollution through dust particles, and in some places outside the school windows, the noise level was also measured.

The finals of the IQRF Summit, 2017, featured the five best competitive projects. Both students and the public could compete. Both students of secondary high schools and university students met at the final contest. Thanks to the interconnection of the world of schools and the world of practice, the experience is intertwined. Younger students can draw inspiration from their older and more experienced rivals and can build valuable partnerships with other institutions.

The Internet of Things is now part of our daily lives and naturally makes abundant use of this technology. Technology which has become vital: without it there would be no IoT and MtoM. And the data volumes carried are increasing in line with this growth.Connected items will therefore need to become ever smarter to provide and interpret data and to correctly present this information to the user.

The brand new concept of “Interoperable - Simple - Secure” solution of the IQRF technology, a Wireless Platform for IoT, was presented in the end of the 2016. Now, it is being fulfilled by new versions of the OS v4.00 and the DPA protocol v3.00 bringing higher safety of wireless communication, security of transferred data and higher comfort for users. Interoperability of the whole IQRF Ecosystem is being presented via solutions and IoT applications by the IQRF Alliance members on a daily basis.

O2 IT Services (O2 ITS), a subsidiary of O2 Czech Republic, is launching together with several partners the pilot project Smart City “Environment – Healthy school” in the area of air quality measurements. O2 ITS is attracting an attention to the issue of the optimal environment at schools and its impact on health and the focus of students and teachers. The project was launched in Frebruary this year and will last several months.

The IQRF Alliance announced a worldwide contest IQRF Wireless Challenge III in the best new wireless applications. The contest closes on 21st May 2017 and the final competition of the best projects will be held at the IQRF Summit 2017, Prague in June 2017. The contest just joined new partners ranking among the most renowned technical companies.

IQRF Alliance and partners invite you at a two-day summit that touches all the key areas of the Internet of Things - smart cities, smart buildings and homes, industry, security, transportation. The real solutions will be demonstrated at the event and also more than 50 new IoT products. In addition to more than 30 interesting and interactive presentations you can look forward to many practical workshops. We expect more than 300 visitors as professionals, technicians, developers, representatives of cities and regions.
Among the presenters you will find representatives from companies such as Microsoft, O2, AAEON, NETIO products, MICRORISC, Aledo, Protronix, IQ Home and many others.

IQRF Alliance announces a worldwide contest IQRF Wireless Challenge III. “Test your skills, create a new application for the IQRF wireless technology and compete for valuable prizes”; this is a challenge for all technicians, programmers, developers, and students from all over the world.

IQRF Alliance and MICRORISC were successfully exhibiting at the electronica 2016 trade fair in Munich, Germany, from 8th to 11th November. The most interesting topics presented were ready wireless interoperable devices and solutions and rapid innovation of the IQRF technology as a Wireless Platform for IoT with a brand new concept of “Interoperable - Simple - Secure”. The highest attention was paid to an exciting “Live Apps Demo Board” of more than 30 interoperable products of different companies.

Researchers’ Night is an annual event in Hungary when universities and research centers are open to the public providing stimulating and interesting activities that offer a lot of fun until the late hours of the night. In this year’s event instructors at Obuda University created an interactive simulator that enabled visitors to use their smartphones and to control various features of an electric locomotive that is located just outside the main entrance of Kalman Kando Faculty of Electrical Engineering.

We have a pleasure to invite you to the IQRF Alliance Meeting in Warsaw. The event, held in Poland for the first time, is an excellent opportunity not only to see presentations of existing implementations but also to get familiar with the latest news from the IoT world, especially the IQRF Technology.

Representatives of Czech companies involved in Cloud Computing and wireless sensor networking will give a keynote speech at OpenStack Summit in Austin, 25th to 29th April 2016. The hi-tech companies tcp cloud, MICRORISC and Protronix associated in the IQRF Alliance will collect data from CO2 sensors located around the whole venue and provide them for a summit hackathon.

The worldwide contest in applications for the IQRF wireless technology “IQRF Wireless Challenge II” is opened for submitting design entries. “Test your skills, submit your application for the IQRF wireless technology and compete for valuable prizes totaling 3,700 EUR”; this is a challenge for all technicians, programmers, developers and students from all over the world.

Visit IQRF Alliance Stand at Light and Building trade fair which will be held in Frankfurt, Germany from 13.3. to 18.3. 2016. The IQRF Alliance will present members' solutions and products for smart building, smart cities and Internet of Things. Members who reserved the place on our joint-stand can save money and can get in touch with more potential customers.

IQ HOME Ltd. has just become a new contest partner and brings new development tools and products into the contest with 30% discount. New wireless temperature and humidity sensors, raspberry Pi based IQRF-Ethernet gateways and IQRF Range Testers are available for all the contest participants. All these products belong into the SensNET™ - Temperature and Humidity Sensing, Logging and Reporting System.

The new generation brings very fast integration, easy use without programming and up to twice the signal range with lower power consumption. All these benefits come with the great features of the previous generation.

Microchip Technology Inc. has just become a new contest partner and brings new development tools for all of the contestants and the winners. All the registered contest participants are eligible to order chipKIT uC32 Development Board with 30% discount. The chipKIT uC32 Development Board is also a new prize for all of the six IQRF Wireless Challenge II winners.

Intelligent intersections that aligns the green wave for rescuers, public car park, which itself will guide drivers to vacant parking lots or street lights automatically saving power during periods of low traffic. This seemingly sci-fi scenario does not belong to American movies, but to the real smart cities. The IQRF Alliance brought nearly 40 technological companies, universities and development centers together to address the future of smart cities and smart buildings at a meeting in Brno. Among the first smart cities a Czech City of Písek seems to be the number one.

The project “Smart City Písek” seeks to introduce modern information technologies into the daily regime of the city. Its representatives and the IQRF Alliance have agreed on the use of the technology IQRF as the main communication platform. This gives the city of Písek go ahead to become the first really intelligent city in the Czech Republic.

Around 900 international exhibitors and over 26,000 visitors came together for the embedded world Exhibition & Conference in Nuremberg this year. As the world's largest trade fair of its kind, embedded world is a must for everyone concerned with the development, purchasing, procurement and application of embedded technologies. The embedded AWARD 2014 was presented in the software, hardware and tools categories. This award pays tribute to especially innovative products or developments that are unique and future-orientated. IQRF® Direct Peripheral Access (DPA) was awarded the third place in the software category.

Register for the IQRF webinar that will be carried out on 10th Sept 2014 10:00 - 11:30 CET. Practical demonstration of development of your wireless solution with IQRF Data Controlled Transceivers and IQRF development tools. Over the webinar you will get a full picture how to work with IQRF – from opening the first development set till development of your own peripherals and control software.

In the year of its 10th birthday, IQRF wireless technology has achieved an outstanding success at electronica 2014. There was a huge interest in IQRF as a complete solution for manufacturers to make their products wireless, working in wireless mesh networks and connectable to Internet.

The European Smart Metering Awards 2015 will recognise excellence in Smart Metering and will acknowledge those that are playing a defining role in moving the industry forwards. The Awards ceremony will take place in London on 29th January 2015.

ESA Education Office announced finalists for the 2015 European CanSat Competition, which will take place in Portugal from 25 to 28 June 2015. Czech team GirlsSAT 2015 from the Secondary Technical School of Electrotechnical Engineering in Prague will launch their satellite with IQRF wireless technology.

The IQRF Alliance members PROTRONIX, CIS, and MICRORISC recently presented a complete solution for CO2, humidity and temperature sensor data collection and visualization on the IQRF Cloud. The integration of the IQRF Technology into the CO2 sensor, connection to the IQRF Cloud through a plug-and-play GSM or ETH gateway from MICRORISC and customization of the IQRF Cloud took thanks to the close cooperation of the IQRF Alliance members only 7 weeks.

IQRF Smart School is a program for academic institutions - especially schools. This program enables students of these schools to meet the latest wireless IQRF technology during their studies, which significantly gains ground in the field of Internet of Things.

Vladimír Šulc, CEO of MICRORISC, introduced the potential of wireless lighting systems build on IQRF platform. The main topic was Wireless communication and IoT for smarter lights and more opportunities.

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